“We’ll see whether the sufficient numbers are there.”

He said he’s doing “everything he can” to make it clear what Republicans are willing to do on appropriations, funding the government, and changes to Obamacare.

“So the universe I think is pretty defined and established,” he said. “The question is whether or not they take yes for an answer.”

The South Dakota Republican said he’s hopeful that “we’ll make some progress” this week, saying “we are trying to land this appropriations bill on which I think a continuing resolution could ride, and obviously we’re going to have to extend the date as everybody knows because we’re already up against the November deadline right now.”

“So we’ll see in the next few days where it goes,” Thune added.House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked about